See above, India had it in the 70s. Away from dust bowls they had Nowt. How would that team go in Hobart or SA? Or on the pitches in England, against a team with 3 decent pacers and a serviceable spinner? They'd get smashed.
Yes true. It's never happened in the history of CW before that the discussion in a thread might move on.
There doesn't seem to have been any sort of natural progression though; you just started talking about it for no particular reason.
India proved that you don't need great pacers to have success at test cricket.
See, Tories always talk within the paradigm.There doesn't seem to have been any sort of natural progression though; you just started talking about it for no particular reason.
What? They've been number one for 6 months or so in 70 years!!!! And that was largely on the back of Zaheer making them competitive away. Now there's a consistent home and away structure in palce in terms of the test program, you can't dominate an era without quicks.
Yeah I definitely agree was just for arguments sake disagreeing with NasserFan about the current state of Sri Lanka's bowling stocks.
Don't know if I'd say India had 3-4 world class spinners at once, and during the 70s they had other problems anyway.
Because with the way the schedule is, you're going to play as many games away as at home. So if you play an attack centred on mediocre pace but decent/ great spinners in SA, England or here, you'll get dutifully smacked.
Well if you're happy with 3rd-5th for your team, that's fine. If you're aiming for that you're aiming to fail.
In my book the best spinners should succeed all over the globe too.
They maybe should, but they won't.
dude.....I think senility is setting in with you ......think about what I have said
And I think lack of any understanding of cricket is settling in with you. But I've thought that for quite some time, seeing as you want to deal in gratuitious insults.
sorry about that but your post sounded really condescending
If he had to do the same again, he would my friend..Every time I read Burgey's post about SL needing a fast bowler to be a top team I think of this bloke:
Chill out Burgey, I've got this...
Fine, but if their plan lacks a strategy to base their attack around a decent stable of fast bowlers they will not excel in enough places to be considered a long term number one side.
